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Notable events in diving history (Part 2)

Notable events in diving history (Part 2)

XX century is rich in outstanding events that influenced diving evolution and development.

  • 1908 – physiologists John Scott Haldane, Arthur  Boycott and Gabon Damant carry out a research dedicated to decompression sickness. Achieved data is later used to save lives of numerous divers.
  • 1933 -  foundation of the first diving club “Bottom scrapers”
  • 1936- Eve le Prior organizes a diving center for people who are keen on underwater world exploration.
  • 1938 – Edgar End and Max Noll plunge for 30 meters under water in a pressure chamber. They spent about 27 hours inside of it and at that time one of them experienced signs of decompression sickness.
  • 1939 – a first successful case of rescuing 33 casualties from a wrecked submarine.
  • 1943 – introduction of a modern-day aqualung, that was created with the help of Jaques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan. Five years later this equipment was used to perform a plunge for 106,8 meters deep it was a world record at the time.
  • 1950 – Georges Houot and Pierre-Henry William reach the depth of 4623,8 meters inside a special apparatus called bathyscaphe.
  • 1959 – foundation of World Underwater Federation.
  • 1960 – Professional Association of Diving Instructors starts its work, based on which our diving training is carried out with later certification.
  • 1962 – underwater  houses are projected
  • 1983 – dive-computer Orca Edge is invented
  • 1985 – Ruins of the “Titanic” are found with the help of remote controlled cameras
  • 1993 г. – прошло 50 лет с момента появления акваланга, в этом году в мире сертифицируется 515 тыс. новых дайверов.
  • 1993 – fifty years after the invention of scuba and on this date 515 thousand divers were certificated.

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